On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 10:43 PM, B Kruger <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

Just to be clear I'm not after pros, cons, thoughts, opinions or any discussions about pirates, just published references.

There was apparently an article in JTAS 19 ("The Ecology of Piracy on the Spinward Main") that was relevant.

Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein

"I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as Muhammed." Alexis de Tocqueville (1843)

"We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous." Dean Winchester

"It has been my experience that a gun doesn't care who pulls its trigger." Newton Knight (as portrayed by Matthew McConaughey), to a scoffing Confedrate tax collector facing the weapons held by Knight's young children and wife.